Or without a water softener for 3 days. Heard someone talking about this a month ago. They had to go into full survival mode. Went to Menards and bought 3 cases of water to use in the coffee maker because they didn't want the hard water to clog it up. Called every day until the reapir man showed up. Now they have a case of water lying around that they didn't use during their shtf event and don't know what to do with it.
I can imagine the cities without basic utilities for any length of time. It ain't gonna be good. Zombies for as far as the eye can see.
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Very sad. Water is #1. Not just water, but safe water. Three days and your dead. Sadly, a water softener was not a wake-up call for these people. So many are complacent and missing the required synapses between their neurons. Zombies is correct.
Isn’t Evian spelled Naive backwards ?
As unemployment rises so does the possibility it will effect you and I . Thus my emergency doesn’t have to be anarchy or a natural disaster. It can be no income for 2 or more years........be self reliant, depend only on yourself, share and help others if you can and everything else will come easy IMO.
Frugal is a fun hobby.......:o)
why just cities?......people in the “country” need electricity just as bad.....for refrigeration, the freezer, the water pump, etc......
Debatable or not, its always a good policy to be as self-reliant as you can, even if only for a week or so after a natural disaster.
Then again, some folks just want to disengage as much as possible from the Rat Race. A way to start is by reading Countryside Magazine. Mother earth went Yuppie some years ago but CS is much more down to earth. Fun to read even if you can't go totally "off grid".
A country boy can survive..... ;-)
Went to Menards and bought 3 cases of water to use in the coffee maker because they didn’t want the hard water to clog it up.””
Actually, consumption of hard water is healthy compared to drinking the soft sodium-laden water. We used hard water (Ca++ and Mg++ ions) for a couple of decades without too many problems. Had to replace two water heaters in 20 years, but that was it. I can survive on very little compared to the frivolous stuff I have lying around today.
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